The Navy secretary, John Phelan, was supposed to deliver the first of the president’s ships by 2028. The timeline was nearly impossible. By Greg Jaffe and Helene Cooper Reporting from Washington ...

A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries after a wreck involving a pickup truck on US-301 near Micro in Johnston County on Monday evening. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said the wreck ...

The White House has released its budget request for fiscal year 2027, including a $1.5 trillion defense budget. Trump is requesting billions of dollars for shipbuilding programs, including Golden ...

All but four of the passengers injured in Sunday's deadly collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck have been released from the hospital, the airline said Wednesday, as crews began moving ...

For more than 70 years, the Japanese battleship Musashi lay hidden on the seafloor after being sunk during World War II’s Battle of Leyte Gulf. The massive warship was one of the largest battleships ...

The battleship was once one of the central elements of power in any blue-water navy, and they were prominent throughout world conflicts for half a century. The first modern vessel of its time equipped ...

If you’ve ever been to Wilmington, you’ve likely seen her. She looms over the city’s downtown -- a symbol of state pride and national history. The Battleship North Carolina sits moored at the mouth of ...

Commissioned in 1942, the 263-meter Japanese battleship Musashi carried the largest naval guns ever built and was considered nearly unsinkable. In October 1944, more than 150 US aircraft struck it ...

The USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota-class battleship, earned 11 battle stars in World War II. It fired the first US 16-inch shell of World War II, and the last 16-inch shell of the war overall. The ...

Though the hypothetical Trump-class vessel would have advantages in some areas, it has no good answer to the Admiral Nakhimov’s advanced hypersonic weapons suite. President Donald Trump recently ...